Friends are for ever.


I never intended to have friends, but despite that I am privileged to enjoy a healthy friendship. It is quite difficult to understand how we get into a friendship with someone who was, in fact, a stranger before the time the friendship came into existence.


I remember those early days of my childhood when I got into a friendship with a boy who, my parents believed, was not worth having one as a friend. My parents tried a lot to discourage me to carry on with the friendship. The reason, perhaps, would have been their concern to prevent me from getting into a sort of bad company at that tender age. Going forward, because I could not stop that boy from keeping friendship with me, my mother adopted sullen behavior towards him in an anticipation that the trick would help getting rid of him. But, he ignored everything and managed to keep our friendship going exhibiting maturity at the tender age of around twelve or thirteen. Of late, my parents have realized the worth of having a friend like him. 


Today, I am happy and feel very proud to say that the friendship has matured to thirty years of companionship. Over the period of time, we allowed other friends to grow within our friendship, which is possible only if we are not too possessive about each other. And I believe that, this is probably the reason that facilitated our friendship to last that long years and will help continue it for many more years to come.

Last Sunday, the seventh of August, was a friendship day – a trend has recently become popular among youths to tie a friendship band – when my friend came to meet me. It wasn’t that he had come to tie me a band but because it was a Sunday and we meet invariably on Sundays. Of course, there were times when we used to be together for the whole day long but, after getting into “gruhasti”, we are left to the liberty to meet once a week and that too for durations as short as twenty to thirty minutes where we just go and have a cup of tea at a small restaurant. All in all, I can say it takes just a cup of tea to keep the friendship string tied firmly.
On the friendship day, while having tea, we remembered a friend, who has drifted away from us. Getting nostalgic about the moments we had shared with the drifted away friend we understood one thing that friends are inseparable - they persist deep into our memories for our entire life irrespective of whether we relish remembering them or loathe. However, we look forward to see the drifted away friend coming back to us forgetting what has caused him so much trouble.

Really, friendship is to get wired up to establish a connection, which is eternal.

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